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Dylan Dreyer loves being a doting mother to her three sons, Calvin, five, two-year-old Oliver, and Rusty, one. MORE: Dylan Dreyer pens sweet tribute to husband as they spend Father's Day apartBut she's just as much looking forward to enjoying the things she did before her pregnancy, and that includes her fondness for golfing.VIDEO: Dylan Dreyer shares baby Rusty's cute milestoneThe Today co-host shared pictures announcing her excitement for returning to play the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship (the AC Championship) this year.The photos, however, showed how she last appeared for the tournament, sporting a full baby bump while pregnant with Rusty at the time.MORE: Dylan Dreyer shares Royal Ascot adventures as she leaves Today in New York to report in UKShe was even the first pregnant golfer to compete at the championship and was also jokingly deemed "Best Dressed" according to the stats she shared, even featuring a shot of hers with her husband Brian Fichera.The mom-of-three was elated to be returning without a baby on the way, however, as she penned: "It's almost time!! I can't wait to finally play in the @acchampionship NOT pregnant!!A post shared by Dylan Dreyer (@dylandreyernbc)Dylan will return to the AC Championship for the first time since giving birth"Thanks to @playingnine for collecting my stats (and for dressing me last year, which wasn't easy until I found them!!) My goal this year is to not be in the bottom 10.

NBC has unveiled plans for its 46th annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular special. NBC News’ Today anchors Craig Melvin and Dylan Dreyer will return for the second time to co-host the two-hour event which airs Monday, July 4 from 8-10 PM on NBC and will stream on Peacock. An encore presentation will follow from 10-11 PM ET/PT on NBC.

Matthew McConaughey is addressing President Biden signing a gun control bill following the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the actor's hometown. On Saturday, President Joe Biden signed the «Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,» which enacts commonsense gun laws and provides funding for mental health support and anti-violence programs.McConaughey took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the measure, saying, «While this bill isn't perfect, it is a shining example of a great American potential and political virtue: the act of compromise and validating an opposing viewpoint.»In his eight-slide post to the social media platform, captioned, «America… the land of AND,» McConaughey addressed the Second Amendment, the heartbreaking loss in Uvalde, and American politics at large. A post shared by Matthew McConaughey (@officiallymcconaughey)«This bill will save innocent lives by keeping guns out of the law breaking and irresponsible hands that are trying to hijack the Second Amendment,» he wrote. «Our government took a step in the right direction.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentNetflix and ‘Spencer’ director Pablo Larraín have gone into production on “El Conde,” a black comedy picturing bloody Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire.Larraín will share screenwriting credits with Guillermo Calderón, Chile’s foremost playwright and Larraín’s writing partner on “Neruda” and Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” the movie which persuaded Natalie Portman to play the lead in the Larraín-directed “Jackie.”“El Conde” is produced by Juan de Dios Larraín at Fabula, the Larraín brothers’ Chile-based film-TV production house whose credits include “Spencer” and “Jackie,” all Larrain’s Chilean movies, and Sebastian Lelio’s 2018 Academy Award winning “A Fantastic Woman.” Moving from fest-winning straight-arrow arthouse fare such as “Tony Manero” to movies with a wider audience appeal from 2012 Cannes Directors Fortnight winner “No,” starring Gael García Bernal and then into English-language titles from “Jackie,” Pablo Larrain has established himself in the vanguard of Latin American cinema.Whatever the setting, his movies combine an acute sense of character and big ideas, on power dyanamics, the fate of women in traditional worlds, the lure and hell of fame and also the multiple hostages left to fortune by Augusto Pinochet’s far right and bloody dictatorship.In a review of “Jackie” Variety’s Guy Lodge hailed Larraín as “the most daring and prodigious political filmmaker of his generation,”“El Conde” looks to drive deeper into some of the themes, mixing character analysis, drama and comedy and a trenchant analysis of the makings of the modern world – not only in Chile but in global terms.The historical black comedy revolves around Augusto

K.J. Yossman Director James Marsh is set to direct a new hybrid animated documentary feature for Submarine and Sandpaper Films.“Oasis, Saving the Baghdad Zoo” (working title), is a feature-length animated documentary partly based on “Babylon’s Ark,” the book about a year-long rescue mission of animals abandoned across Baghdad by Saddam Hussein and his son Uday.Billed as a 21st century Noah’s Ark, the film will show how a team of American soldiers, Iraqi zookeepers, and international volunteers tended to lions, camels, bears, exotic birds, monkeys, pigs and even an ocelot in the middle of a brutal war, risking their own lives in the process.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the Blumhouse-produced feature documentary, The Youth Governor, slating it for release on August 26.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has locked down worldwide rights to the comedy The Donor Party, toplined by Malin Åkerman (Chick Fight), Rob Corddry (The Unicorn), Erinn Hayes (Gaslit) and Jerry O’Connell (Billions). The company’s plans for the recently-wrapped pic’s release have not yet been disclosed.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Warner Bros. Development Executive Paul Perez has inked a production deal at the Burbank, CA lot.

EXCLUSIVE: After exiting Fast X, it didn’t take Justin Lin long to rev up another franchise. He’s set to direct One Punch Man for Sony Pictures., Scott Rosenberg & Jeff Pinkner, who teamed on Jumanji: The Next Level, and Venom, are set to write the live-action film adaptation of worldwide hit manga series. Sony Pictures acquired the film rights from Shueisha.

the red carpet and glittery statuettes are back on Sunday, June 12, at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) is hosting the 75th main ceremony, kicking off at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.

defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, French luxury house Christian Dior retained its contractual ties to the actor with fans rushing to empty shelves of the perfume as a show of support. The ad features Depp playing a guitar in a desert as a howloing wolf walks alongside him appeared on Fox in a move which could see more of Depp’s endorsements return to the public sphere.

Matthew McConaughey is calling for gun responsibility in a newly penned op-ed.In a piece published by, the Oscar-winning actor — born in Uvalde, Texas — addresses the deadly Robb Elementary School shooting that took place on May 24 and what should be done in its wake. «I believe that responsible, law-abiding Americans have a Second Amendment right, enshrined by our founders, to bear arms,» he writes in his op-ed. «I also believe we have a cultural obligation to take steps toward slowing down the senseless killing of our children. The debate about gun control has delivered nothing but status quo.

EXCLUSIVE: In an eye-catching acquisition, 42 has bought respected UK talent and literary agency Dalzell and Beresford, we can reveal.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the political satire Land of Dreams, directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, which is making its North American premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section of the Tribeca Film Festival in June. The global indie distributor has slated the film for a day-and-date theatrical release in 10 of the top 20 markets—including in Los Angeles and New York—this fall. (Watch a new trailer unveiled today by the company above.)

EXCLUSIVE: Erin Young’s recently published crime thriller The Fields is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies), Jennifer Todd Pictures and Endeavor Content have acquired the rights to the book to adapt into a television series, with Kate Brooke (A Discovery of Witches, Bancroft) attached as writer/showrunner.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Stranger Things” actor Brett Gelman is set to star in “Entitled,” a half-hour comedy series ordered at Showtime in the U.S. and Channel 4 in the U.K.Created by Matt Morgan (“Mister Winner,” “The Mimic”), the show follows Gabe (Gelman), an American widower who must get to know his British wife’s estranged family.

So it turns out there's more to a celebrity than meets the eye, with the likes of EastEnders' Danny Dyer being related to real life royalty. Who'd have thought our favourite cockney actor would have such royal connections? And he's not the only one, either. Chaser Anne Hegerty recently unveiled her royal heritage and is fact the Queen's 19th cousin – perhaps that's why she's got so much inside knowledge.